TY - JOUR
T1 - Frailty profile in Brazilian older adults
T2 - ELSI-Brazil
AU - Andrade, Juliana Mara
AU - Duarte, Yeda Aparecida de Oliveira
AU - Alves, Luciana Correia
AU - Andrade, Flávia Cristina Drumond
AU - Junior, Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza
AU - Lima-Costa, Maria Fernanda
AU - de Andrade, Fabíola Bof
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Universidade de Sao Paulo.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of frailty and to evaluate the associated factors in the non-institutionalized Brazilian population aged 50 years or older. METHODS: The analyses were conducted in 8,556 participants of the baseline survey of the Longitudinal Study of Health of the Brazilian Elderly (ELSI-Brazil) conducted in 2015 and 2016. Frailty was defined based on five characteristics: weight loss, weakness, slowness, exhaustion and low level of physical activity. Participants with three or more characteristics were classified as frail. A Poisson regression model was used to examine the association between frailty and sociodemographic and health factors. RESULTS: The prevalence of frailty was 9.0% (95%CI 8.0-10.1) among participants aged 50 years or over. Among the older adults aged 60 or over, the prevalence was 13.5% (95%CI 11.9-15.3) and 16.2% (95%CI 14.3-18.3) among those 65 aged years or over. Factors associated with higher prevalence of frailty were low schooling, residence without a partner, health conditions (poor self-rated health and two or more chronic diseases) and limitation to perform basic activities of daily living. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of frailty among Brazilians aged 65 years or older is similar to their European counterparts. Poor health conditions, functional limitation and low schooling emerge as the factors most strongly associated with the frailty in this population.
AB - OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of frailty and to evaluate the associated factors in the non-institutionalized Brazilian population aged 50 years or older. METHODS: The analyses were conducted in 8,556 participants of the baseline survey of the Longitudinal Study of Health of the Brazilian Elderly (ELSI-Brazil) conducted in 2015 and 2016. Frailty was defined based on five characteristics: weight loss, weakness, slowness, exhaustion and low level of physical activity. Participants with three or more characteristics were classified as frail. A Poisson regression model was used to examine the association between frailty and sociodemographic and health factors. RESULTS: The prevalence of frailty was 9.0% (95%CI 8.0-10.1) among participants aged 50 years or over. Among the older adults aged 60 or over, the prevalence was 13.5% (95%CI 11.9-15.3) and 16.2% (95%CI 14.3-18.3) among those 65 aged years or over. Factors associated with higher prevalence of frailty were low schooling, residence without a partner, health conditions (poor self-rated health and two or more chronic diseases) and limitation to perform basic activities of daily living. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of frailty among Brazilians aged 65 years or older is similar to their European counterparts. Poor health conditions, functional limitation and low schooling emerge as the factors most strongly associated with the frailty in this population.
KW - Aged
KW - Aging
KW - Health status
KW - Health surveys
KW - Socioeconomic factors
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U2 - 10.11606/S1518-8787.2018052000616
DO - 10.11606/S1518-8787.2018052000616
M3 - Article
C2 - 30379282
AN - SCOPUS:85055661494
SN - 0034-8910
VL - 52
JO - Revista de saude publica
JF - Revista de saude publica
M1 - 17s
ER -